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spraak
on April 28, 2019
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Indonesia election: More than 270 election staff d...
Would electronic or online voting NOT have saved the lives? Or what is your point?
chowells
on April 28, 2019
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Of course it wouldn't have. None of them died from counting votes.
spraak
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Aha, what are you suggesting that they died from? I'm sincerely curious and not sure what you mean
yorwba
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Natural causes. If they hadn't been counting votes, they'd have died doing something else. The number of people involved was high enough for a few hundred deaths to be expected:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19773386
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